Nice: Why We Love to Be Liked and How God Calls Us to More - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Baker BooksISBN-13:9780801075247ISBN-10:801075246UPC:9780801075247Book Category:ReligionBook Subcategory:Christian LivingBook Topic:Spiritual Growth, Personal Growth, Women's InterestsSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCET2197GT
God never called us to be nice.
What happens when we replace courage with compromise?
What happens when we replace honesty with likability?
What happens when we replace conviction with clich s?
What happens when we replace discipleship to Christ with a devotion to nice?
We live in a culture that prizes niceness as one of its highest virtues. Niceness keeps the peace, wins friends, gains influence, and serves our reputations well, but it also takes the teeth out of our witness and the power out of our faith. When we choose to be nice instead of faithful, we bear fruits that are bland, bitter, empty, and rotten to the core.
In this life-changing book, Sharon Hodde Miller explores the seemingly innocent idol that has crept into our faith and quietly corrupted it, producing the bad fruits of cowardice, inauthenticity, shallowness, and more. Then she challenges readers to cultivate a better tree, providing practical steps to reclaim our credibility as followers of Christ, and bear better, richer, more life-giving fruits.
What happens when we replace courage with compromise?
What happens when we replace honesty with likability?
What happens when we replace conviction with clich s?
What happens when we replace discipleship to Christ with a devotion to nice?
We live in a culture that prizes niceness as one of its highest virtues. Niceness keeps the peace, wins friends, gains influence, and serves our reputations well, but it also takes the teeth out of our witness and the power out of our faith. When we choose to be nice instead of faithful, we bear fruits that are bland, bitter, empty, and rotten to the core.
In this life-changing book, Sharon Hodde Miller explores the seemingly innocent idol that has crept into our faith and quietly corrupted it, producing the bad fruits of cowardice, inauthenticity, shallowness, and more. Then she challenges readers to cultivate a better tree, providing practical steps to reclaim our credibility as followers of Christ, and bear better, richer, more life-giving fruits.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Baker BooksISBN-13:9780801075247ISBN-10:801075246UPC:9780801075247Book Category:ReligionBook Subcategory:Christian LivingBook Topic:Spiritual Growth, Personal Growth, Women's InterestsSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCET2197GT
Sharon Hodde Miller is a pastor's wife, a mother to two small boys, and the author of Free of Me. In addition to earning her PhD, Sharon has blogged at SheWorships.com for nearly ten years, making God's Word accessible to women everywhere. She has been a regular contributor to Propel and Her.meneutics, and has written for Relevant, Christianity Today, (in)courage, She Reads Truth, and many other publications and blogs. She speaks regularly on topics ranging from leadership to body image to Scripture. She lives with her family in the Raleigh/Durham area.
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